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# The Sealey Challenge Day 18
- URL: https://www.richardjnewman.com/microblog/the-sealey-challenge-day-18/
- Published: 2026-08-19T01:36:21.000Z
- Updated: 2026-08-19T01:36:21.000Z
- Author: Richard Jeffrey Newman
- Tags: Microblog, thesealychallenge2026

## The Sealey Challenge Day 18

> I cut it off myself  
> both times I married, veiled  
> the attentive temples, the long spine.  
> To spite, to tease, to be and not be his  
> look-alike, his twin. I hid the woman in his heart  
> so long I had forgotten. Face  
> I’m forever about to know.

—*from* “Body,” *i*n *Pastoral Jazz,* Olga Broumas’ third book

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